Hermit-a-day May

Hermit-a-day May

Day 12 - Friends of Hermitcraft Lizzie <3

someone asked how to colour a traditional sketch digitally so I'll explain that down below ^ ^

no really much of a tutorial, anyways

I take a picture of my sketch (a scan is actually better because then you don't have to do the next step)

then I edit it so that I get high contrast with the colours, when I got a pencil sketch I simply make it black-and-white and try to get the white as bright as possible without losing my lines

after that I Import it into my drawing app, with ibis you got the option to extract lines so I usually do that but it doesn't always gives you a satisfactory result

if extracting lines doesn't work/isn't an option simply put the layer of your drawing into multiply and keep it above your colour layers

one thing to keep in mind is that if you don't have a pure white where the empty paper is, which is most likely always the case, you always gonna have your colours a bit more muted than you what you actually are putting down

so maybe this little tutorial is of any use, hope I could teach some ppl something new :D

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 13

Cubfan135 x Courage the Cowardly Dog

For Cubfan I picked Courage the Cowardly Dog! Courage has an unusually high mad scientist per capita so I wanted to do either Cub, Doc or Zed in this style. I chose Cub because a scientist creating talking horns that mimic people and end up terrorizing a neighborhood sounds like something that would happen on the show.

To learn more about Courage the Cowardly Dog and see my style references, continue below the cut.

Courage the Cowardly Dog was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid, which probably explains more about me than I'd like to admit. It's a comedy-horror with a lot of genuinely disturbing and surreal moments.

The show is technically safe for everyone, but anyone who watches it will be altered forever by the Return the Slab guy. If you know you know.

The show centers around a little pink dog named Courage who lives with an elderly couple, Muriel and Eustace Bagge, in a farmhouse outside of the town of Nowhere. They are also figuratively in the middle of nowhere. Courage is scared of everything, but constantly thrown into life or death situations where he needs to save his family from often supernatural threats that just show up for some reason.

The visuals of the show are creepy and at times even upsetting, but the stories are nearly always about how Courage overcomes his fear out of love for his family (Muriel specifically). The show has a lot of different visual styles and even uses different kinds of animation, but for Cub I designed him in the style you would typically see in recurring characters. Style references:

The characters in courage usually have large heads and spindly limbs. The settings often look aged and discolored.

For Cubs shape and features I pulled a lot of influence from Freaky Fred, who is a barber with severe serial killer vibes that I think might be a Sweeney Todd reference. I didn't want Cub to be that scary, though, so I gave him a normal smile.

One of the Courage the Cowardly Dog TV logos

Day 14: Doc

wassup god of change. always love drawing this guy

Hermit-a-Day May, Day 12: Friends of Hermitcraft (Scott Smajor, specifically). I'm giving myself kind of a "free day" for this one while I work on finishing Pearl's art; if I had to specify, I would call this medium/style "uncolored digital sketch," which happens to be smack dab in the middle of my comfort zone. I don't particularly feel that I've learned anything from this piece, but that's okay. I felt like drawing Scott, so I did. Sometimes you just gotta give yourself a break, y'know?

[Day 13] Hermitaday - Hermitcraft Recap! Bdubs is watching this weeks recap

I probably spent a solid half an hour wheezing at this and almost accidentally posted it *to the wrong blog* before drawing clothes on anyone and it made me laugh even harder. Send help I’m dying

Emoji versions of wheezing zloyxp and Picard facepalm lyarrah under the cut for anyone who wants them lol

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 14

Docm77 x Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

I drew Doc in the style of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust! And it took like 12 hours!

I picked this style for Doc because Bloodlust has the most detailed, over-the-top dramatic animation style I've seen in a long time and I thought it would be very funny to render Doc in a way that was 100x more extra than any of the other hermits.

If you want to learn more about Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and see my style references, go below the cut!

(fundraiser for Gamer's Outreach)

Bloodlust is a dramatic, very gothic movie about a romance between a vampire and a human and the vampire hunter who is hunting them down. I won't get into the plot here, since it is very involved, but it is melancholic and Dramatic with a capital D. It is somewhat reminiscent of Dracula, but in a post-apocalyptic fantasy future.

The main takeaway for me is that it is a BEAUTIFUL movie. Seriously, still images to not do it justice. The entire thing is animated like a baroque painting come to life. Like Caravaggio meets anime, for real. Go watch some clips, you'll see what I mean.

Also nearly everyone is like, shrink-wrapped into their clothes. That wasn't just a choice I made for The Goat, that's just what people in this movie look like.

Style references:

Everything looks like this all the time.

Everything is very detailed too - look at those lashes!

Font from one of the posters

BONUS: The Lineart! Because I am very proud of it and some of the detail is lost in the final render.